Partners and Families

Significant others

Partners and families are very much integrated into the fabric of MIT Sloan. They bring a balance to the experience, enriching the time spent in Cambridge for all program participants.

Partners and children not only are able to participate in many student activities, but also have their own robust network with a busy roster of activities and a 24/7 support system. Partners and children alike form lifelong bonds, enriched by diversity and strengthened by the shared MIT experience.

Significant Others of Sloan (SOS)

Whether your significant other is male or female, a full-time working professional, a student, or a stay-at-home parent, the Significant Others of Sloan (SOS) Club can be a tremendously helpful source of information, activities, and social support in adapting to and taking full advantage of your time at MIT Sloan. The SOS Club is dedicated to organizing events and activities for all significant others and family members of MIT Sloan students.

Membership in the SOS Club will enable you to network with significant others and participate in stimulating events such as jazz nights, wine tastings, museum tours, art shows, weekend trips, book club gatherings, athletic events, happy hours, and cuisine nights. The Club sponsors both daytime and evening activities to help accommodate everyone’s busy schedule. These fun events are a great way to get to know others in the MIT community and embrace life in the Metro Boston area.

Spouses and Partners (SP)

Serving the entire MIT community, the Spouses&partners@MIT organization is an invaluable source of practical advice and information on all aspects of living in the area. A club of more than 400 wives, husbands, and significant others of MIT students and staff from around the world. Whether you’re looking for the best grocery store, beach, art museum, or mall, the Newcomers’ Guide helps ease the transition to life at MIT.

LGBT

MIT Sloan encourages an open and welcoming atmosphere for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered members of the MIT Sloan community. LGBT@MIT serves as a contact point for gay-friendly activities.

Family Resources

The MIT Work-Life Center: A connection to resources for everything from summer camps to child care centers to comprehensive parenting information.

MIT FamilyNet: An online community for MIT families, where members network and can ask questions about potential family activities, finding baby sitters, and parenting in general.

SWITZER FELLOWSHIP WINNER JASON JAYFocusing on environmental research and leadership

“I love being in a place that is such a nexus of people and ideas — people coming to learn something new and to define themselves. Being a part of that process is a real honor and a real gift.”

"I needed to get a better understanding of the interaction of management and technology. And I think MIT is an obvious place for that. There’s probably no better place in the world [for learning] how technology and management interact."

“I knew about American business, but not enough about what’s really become a global economy. … You can read about it all you want, but there’s no substitute for being there and seeing the context and seeing how completely different these [other countries] are.”

"The goal of the Retail and Consumer Goods Club is to provide networking opportunities for students at MIT Sloan, and to educate students about different functions within the retail and CPG space. We bring in executive-level speakers to educate our community on this topic."

"The Sloan community really rallied around me in a way that I totally didn’t anticipate. … It was just really nice to be a part of a community that I was totally comfortable in and felt completely supported by."

"You have to manage what you can deliver for the company and what the company is expecting. The bottom line is that the CEOs of those companies want results. Even though we have to work five months in a row with the project, we have to deliver. This experience is more pragmatic than academic. It's a good opportunity to match those two worlds."

“These companies are really excited to work with MIT students.They reach out to the community to set up these projects and are great to work with. They give us access to all their resources and are very open to us.”

INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RESEARCHAdapting to the changing nature of work

“We’re very interdisciplinary. Among the faculty in the group are an economist, a political scientist, a sociologist, and an industrial relations specialist. We’ve always made a big effort to be open to a variety of perspectives, but also to go beyond being open to them, to want to bring them in, because it makes for a richer environment.”

“You could talk about watershed management and conservation of energy all you want. But until you put numbers to it and financial analysis to it, you’re not going to get much done. I came to business school to speak that language, speak with people in terms of numbers, financial numbers so that I can get projects done.”

“One of the reasons I came to Sloan was because I wanted to be at a top MBA institution worldwide. But I also wanted access to working with the latest innovations and the highest technology that was coming out of the MIT labs.”

"MIT is not only a first-class institution in studying entrepreneurship, but in creating it and fostering it. A huge number of companies have emerged from MIT, not just MIT’s science and engineering schools, but also from collaborative projects between the science and engineering and the Sloan school."

“[LGO students] get the advantage of a small cohort that they take many courses with. But they’re also part of the larger community. They’re part of MIT, of MIT Sloan, of the MBA program. They’re part of the core program that meets every fall, they’re part of the engineering committee; they get the benefits of both the larger community and the small cohort.”

“MIT Sloan is a serious research environment, and that reverberates in the classroom. Students are eager to participate in research, not just review finished case studies. They have the opportunity to see research unfold.”